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- 1986-1987 (Creation)
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Press cuttings for the Eye for Industry Exhibition
Eye for Industry was an exhibition organised for Industry Year by the Royal Society of Arts in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Exhibition marked the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the RDIs by the Royal Society of Arts in 1936. It showed diverse achievements of British designers contrasting the talents of Eric Gill and Lord Snowdon "The Fathers of the Jet Engine," Frank Whittle the fabricator of English fantasy fashions, Zandra Rhodes, Eileen Gray, who's furniture was first produced in France in the 1930s and Sir Barnes Wallis who in 1925 built the R100 airship.
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RSA Archive London
Royal Designers for Industry
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- English
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Condition: Poor, damage due to poor preservation
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Creator: BarlettaA 14/01/2025